Daniel Zhang
Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Zhang is a software engineer based in Menlo Park with 12 years of experience building large-scale, data-driven systems that blend machine learning, software engineering, and data science. Currently at Meta, he focuses on anti-malware infrastructure—designing scalable databases and search indexing, measuring security impact, and deploying ML models and infra for malware detection. His background combines industry internships at Facebook, CME Group, and Sandia with published academic research in ML theory and applied data science (AISTATS 2019, KDD 2017), showing fluency from provable algorithms to production systems. He graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science from the University of Michigan with a mathematics minor, and brings a pre-medical physics mindset to technical problem solving. Notably, he has experience turning noisy, ambiguous streaming data into algorithms with provable guarantees and translating research insights into operational tooling.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Minor, Mathematics, Minor, Mathematics at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude at University of Michigan College of Engineering
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
messenger10
chat10
duckduckgo10
adblock10
observer10
kanji10
ios-application10
xcodebuild10
signal10
reactive9
safari9
rxswift9
functional9
linux9
swift9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ikiapps/Setup-Xcode-Derived-Data-RAM-Disk
Mar 2016 - Oct 2020
Swift Script: Get the fastest build times in Xcode. This repository accompanies my article linked here:
Contributions:7 releases, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 7 months
timesswift-scriptfastestswiftios
Hawaii-Smart-Energy-Project/Maui-Smart-Grid
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:144 commits in 4 months
pythonsciencescience-softwaresmart-griddata-science
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